Tag: agriculture
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Rural Renaissance
Book Review The March 12th episode of Booked on Planning featured author Michelle Moore, an advocate for sustainable energy solutions in rural America who recently published Rural Renaissance. Moore shared her wealth of knowledge on the subject, emphasizing the vital role that rural cooperatives and public power companies play in rejuvenating America’s heartland. With a…
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Regenerative Farming
This past week I watched two great documentaries that changed the way I think about farming. Having grown up in Nebraska and spent a lot of time driving around rural areas, my idea of farming was spring planting, fall harvest, cows brought in to graze the fields in the winter, then starting the cycle over.…
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Urban Farming
Living in Minneapolis has many benefits, one being the plethora of farmers markets to choose from year round. One problem with the city though is the climate. Our cold winters mean I rarely find local fruits and vegetables after October and before May. While this might sound like a standard problem for northern cities, some…
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The Dust Bowl
There is still a generation living that can recall the hard times brought on by the Dust Bowl. I think about how my grandparents, in their late 90’s now, would have been just teenagers at that time. I recall reading Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck trying to imagine a different Nebraska than the one…
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